Ingredients:
- 1 large zucchini (split and hollowed)
- 1 lb sausage
- sage
- pistachios
- nutmeg
- cardamom
- pomegranate molasses
- 1 cup black rice
Ingredients (alternate):
- 1 giant zucchini sawn into boats
- I run the seeds and such through a blender and add them back into the mix
- 1 lb hot Italian sausage
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 1 cup rice (cook it ahead though)
- 1/4 cup pomegranate molasses
- 1/2 cup white wine
- 1 green bell pepper finely diced
- 1 onion finely diced
- Kalamata olives (sliced or diced)
- plain smoked almonds (house-made)
- ground flaxseed (boost fiber)
- cardamom
- basil
- parsley
- thyme
- black and white pepper
- cayenne
- salt
Directions:
- split zucchini and hollow the inner bits (you can grind these and eat them if you want)
- mix the stuff together (including any ground up bits from the zucchini)
- fill the boats with all the stuff
- bake for an hour at maybe 325f
- adjust the above as necessary
Best of luck.
Latest version (20230924):
Ingredients (alternate):
- 1 giant zucchini sawn into boats
- run the seeds and such through a blender with the following
- cashews
- sun dried tomatoes
- 1 lb hot Italian sausage
- 1 lb ground turkey
- 1 shallot finely diced
- mushrooms
- 1/2 cup white wine (used to deglaze after sausages, shallots, and mushrooms fry)
- ground flax seed and oat bran (boost fiber)
- cardamom
- cinnamon
- thyme
- black and white pepper, cayenne, salt
- 1 cup rice (cook it ahead though)
Ingredients (alternate):
- mushrooms
- black rice
- bacon
- caramelized onions
- 3 eggs (binder)
- ricotta
- mozzarella
- pecorino
- garlic confit
- marjoram
- savory
- salt
- pepper
- white pepper
- cayenne
- cornstarch
Any of these could be used or modified for stuffing bell peppers of any color.
Here is one I used for bell peppers.
Ingredients:
- 1 lb spicy Italian sausage
- 1 C black rice
- finely chopped shallots
- garlic
- 3 plums chopped
- ½ C oat meal
- 1 T ground flax seed
- 1 T oat bran
- yogurt
- salt, pepper, and cayenne
The bell pepper go into the oven (300-325f) for maybe 90 minutes.
Big summer for zucchini. At least two ten-pounders. Here is my latest stuffing of zucchini boats:
1lb ea sausage (Italian hot) and ground turkey
red onion
garlic
black rice
dried mushrooms
goji berries (dried)
golden raisins (very good in this one)
salt/pepper/cayenne
pomegranate molasses
white wine (both to deglaze the pan and also to add fluid to the blender for pulverizing the seeds and innards)
dark rum (flambee before deglaze)
oatmeal
oat bran
ground flaxseed
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